gave a statement claiming russia is responsible for the devastation in syria and even went as far as blaming this channel. take these questions to r.t. to sputnik ask them those very questions what are they doing to stop the devastation the deaths and the murders that are taking place in syria i'd be curious to hear their answers they could do a lot more they certainly very unique responsibility we'd like to see them do i think what she's trying to say is that any kind of civilian deaths that take place in the course of the syrian government offensive are the responsible of the russian government because the russians are supporting the syrians so therefore anything they say the syrians are guilty of russia is guilty of to that same principle could be applied for example when the iraqi forces recovered a bosal from diane or one of the kurdish led forces the s.d.f. recovered rocka from di actually both cases with strong american air support which took a tremendous civilian toll in these areas to

a lot of people got killed lydia liberating those areas so that accusation works both ways. if senior figure in the anti immigration alternative for germany party has launched a scathing attack on chancellor angela merkel prompting her to storm out of the chamber put all of our reports. finger pointing and a walkout by the chancellor is this the new normal of german politics it was a very heated session in the bundestag on thursday morning here in berlin. merkel was outlining how she see some of the challenges facing germany and europe and what needed to be done on that but it was really the performance from the political new kids on the block alternative to germany well certainly true a lot of the attention first off we heard from alice vidler who's one of their co-leaders she said that the e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and

a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national deal to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was off not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported cooperation between the e.u. member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the

new normal in german politics because like them all loath them alternative for germany have the votes there in the parliament we've actually seen them growing in the polls of late but one can't really presume that every time they say something that mrs merkel doesn't agree with she's going to decide she has somewhere else better to be shortly after the incident peter describe the german lawmakers debated a motion from the f.t. to ban islamic face coverings. the book. is the oath for the manifestation of islamic culture the tour and so women being veiled would be a fateful sign that our constitutional state is falling back under the cultural colonization of radical islam our fundamental values are here to people who are free and equal the full covering is a signal that there isn't a will to participate in our open society the beleaguered. dear colleagues a wolf in sheep's clothing sits in our bundestag this proposal isn't motivated by

the stated reasons but rather as the applicant has already claimed to the press before we had it on our desks and how it's just been confirmed to be as a measure against the culture of color and i say. this is the often quoted if your proposal is successful the women who are up until now forced by their families and husbands only to leave the house while fully covered what in the future no longer be able to leave the house at all therefore you're not helping these women rather you're robbing them of the last morsel of freedom and participation in our society . is evil and the other way to be sure when you don't want to hear these arguments because they come from the wrong faction you're aware i no longer belong to them but a need for action in this matter is still as it was before do you believe you and like i got to go about their religious freedom belongs in germany by the politicized does not and we are going to turn against this and everywhere where

this politicize islam attempts to restrict our way of life because it usual state it will stand opposed to this. portuguese island in the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of a dig in time a nation decades of u.s. air force activity have left it polluted with waste including heavy metals and the islanders say that they're worried about the prevalence of cancer. but back to twenty thousand years this is the constant oscillators of the sort of releases and have a constant as to why now let's say eighteen twenty twenty unsealed hours and twenty thousand twenty thousand. new them freely and it

stands around away from here as well ready to stay too long. in most what we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals a hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some zones that are copper zinc and molybdenum base all of them having metals that in certain concentrations can cause to realty in cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances. all my family lived in that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom of breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer in my life when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer.

much confusing the more cancer cases there are the more they will feel ation asks why is this happening why if private story on the roads is that on one side all houses have a had at least one case of cancer and on the other side it's almost every other house that is not normal yours. other singers and. the u.s. has maintain a presence on. islands since nine hundred forty three serves as a stopover for transatlantic military flights and is home to the sixty fifth base group although it is not known how many personnel are currently stationed there there are one hundred sixty one houses to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks that workers at the facility say that they have been exposed to. you going to have meant there was also

a senate commission that came to check a legal process from some members of the american military who had done enough terminal cancer and were exposed to radioactivity on to say. they were here for a week and june this is on i found out what that will do and here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation and radioactive contamination with. the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three and has since been leaked details seventeen major fuel spills in one case fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel were released when a pump was unintentionally activated i was in one thousand nine hundred four and there has been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil air and water here is what local experts have been telling us. we found in the data that was published referring to the two

thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior divots or area than the rest of the especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can see with thirty three percent of the cases being in prior divots while the area has only eight point five two percent of the story in population. but we. know the repeats itself on various islands there occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government doesn't react the population has no capacity to take a stance maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy or lack of knowledge on the cause or effect relations we contacted both the u.s. and portuguese governments but have received no responses to the specific questions we asked u.s. government did however forward to us and your press release from last december it

states that the two countries are aware of the situation and are seeking expert advice on how best to proceed. clashes have erupted in the northern italian city of turin where anti-fascist activists rallied against the nationalist casa pound party police used water cannons to break up the protests. in the protest to tom's as the leaders of casa pound launched of their manifesto and candidates for next month's general elections. an anti-gun campaign a group in the us has published a list of three hundred members of congress which it cues is of blocking efforts to

impose tougher firearms laws according to every town for gun safety all of these politicians accept money from the national rifle association calls for a new legislation have intensified in the wake of a school shooting in florida which left seventeen people dead mass protests have been held in cities across the country calling for a ban of the weapon used in that shooting the. a r fifteen assault rifle however the head of the national rifle association has doubled down saying staff at schools should be better armed he also accused the gun control advocates of exploiting the tragedy. we heard some contrasting it views on the story from john william louden former republican member of the missouri senate and burnell professor of urban studies at queens college in new york. you can ban all the guns you want today you can ban every sale every manufacture you're not going to stop a single shooting that killer every killer is going to find

a gun there are over two hundred thirty million guns and almost one per person in this country you're not going to get rid of them and you shouldn't get rid of them for me and for the majority of american schools are a place of human development and growth and free thinking and critical thinking and not a place for weaponize suppression and fear and intimidation which which happens from guns because that's what they do they kill i don't i don't believe that we should get rid of. all johns illegally get rid of all that is there is a place for. me we should think about the causes of these mass shootings and why they are happening so we're meant we're keeping the discourse pretty superficial the idea that that gun looks scary and it's only made for killing you know every gun is made for killing at killing birds deer i think it's kind of tragic in you know just disturbing that we would talk about in the same conversation the same sentence of talking about an a r fifteen talking about it as if it's really

about killing deer there's something else that these guns can kill and that's a lot of american children and people in movie theaters in schools and concerts now too so i think the really important thing here is what is this really about and i think that we're at a fundamental point in american history where this conversation is about the future of this country spirit and soul we shouldn't pass laws based on emotion we should pass laws based on what the constitution guides us and all ten amendments to the constitution are handcuffs on a government that would strip the government from taking things away from us restrict the government from taking where speech our worship rights and by the way our gun ownership rights i think in terms of the media you know i think there is absolutely problems with the mainstream media it's all exploitation of people's. and the very idea that we need guns as a necessity to protect ourselves is based on that fear fundamentally it's based on a history of fear in other places. it's all the way back on reconstruction and jim

crow so. yeah i mean that's that's that's a that's a fine buzzword to put out there but if we're going to think about this historically speaking why are so many people so easily kind of manipulated into into feeling like they need weapons and guns to protect themselves you know it's because this country has a history of brutal violence against a lot of people and like i said we're at a point where we're trying to redesign it. to get an american people is going to be . to russian athletes who have been stripped of their olympic bronze medals in curling by the court of arbitration for sports after one of them tested positive for a banned substance to try to go as the latest from south korea where the winter games are taking place so cas is officially saying that the first ever russian medal in

curling that was won by the oh they are mixed deal will now have to be taken away from them the announcement comes just about fifteen hours after alexander crucial lead ski who's both doping test samples turn out to be positive formal dhoni chose not to proceed with the court of arbitration for sport hearing that was planned for thursday afternoon. it's silly to do don't they don't be moved violations when the presence of a prohibited substance was consumed by to doping tests i'm ready for the verdict which is predictably the same in all cases and i weigh the pros and cons and decided to withdraw from the cause hearings i think in this situation it's useless and senseless so the russian curler has admitted that there was an anti-doping rule violation formally but he maintains that he is not guilty and that he has never taken the pills on purpose today we found out that alexander crucial needs and his

wife are not giving up the legal battle completely the russian curling federation will be looking to help them through trying to prove his innocence eventually and also they will try to get back these medals for now they haven't been able to obtain the c.c.t.v. footage or any other possible evidence that could play in favor of the o.a.r. athletes but if they do so the court of arbitration for sport provides the opportunity to relaunch the arbitration later the concentration of mill dony i'm in these two don't bring test samples pointed to single use and we heard from the man who invented the drug that taking the pills once or twice is absolutely useless besides this we've spoken to the coaches experts other curlers who had suggested that there may have been some sort of sabah taj that someone could have

spiked alexander's food or drinks although if the curlers want to get their medals back they will obviously have to prove that and that is a very difficult process. on a lighter note they have called each other names threaten each other with nuclear knowledge and now they have finally met albeit not quite the real thing. twitter what are you going to get on the twitter thing man nobody uses today then will you want to instagram. donald trump and kim jong un's impersonators appeared together and punk chang earlier archy's crew is with them and we've got a special something for you in the make a chargeback for our reporter later on friday. that does it for me this i'll be back with headlines in about well thirty two minutes or so you're watching our two international.

don't mess up syria got odd security interests that's russian security interest ok not just a thought we want a stable syria and we want a stable lebanon and yukon just send in planes every week to bomb the country and disrupt the political process in this way it's unacceptable. we were used to war for gaza because they lest. we dismantle the settlements which we got good neighbors we got to kill organization is it true they look at still i will feel it just seemed i will keep it simple and dug tunnels so instead of having good neighbors we have come a stunning which is a tell all state. new charges filed against former trump campaign chairman paul not

a forte in the russian investigators and the charges were put under seal was one hind muller's latest move we'll take a look at that on this edition of politic. welcome to politicking on larry king on wednesday special counsel robert muller filed new criminal charges against paul not afford the former manager of donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign but mr muller placed the charges under seal obscuring the nature and import of them leaving many to wonder what this development means we'll start there with richard petty. at the university of minnesota he was the chief white house ethics lawyer during the administration of george w. bush and he's currently vice chair for citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington he joins us from minneapolis so here richard. what do you make of this

and why do you think is sealed when the number risen is a prosecutor would want a sale and indictment of portions of an indictment and usually the rayson is to not disclose to other potential subjects of the investigation of the information that the prosecutor know. and is continuing to investigate a number of different things not just the money laundering with respect to mr madoff fort mr gates but also the russian air fares and the election whether they had anything to do with it and there are a number of people being investigated in connection with the russian inner ferret's with the election and robert mueller may not want to tip his hat as to what he was and what he doesn't know at this stage of the investigation the judge the judge has to approve that right yes the judge approves it's filed under sail with the judge

thinks it's a reasonable request to file it under sail the judge will. will keep it under sail at least for the time being it will eventually get out it would be really very very difficult not impossible that someone criminally with an indictment that remains under sail through the trial is it generally the indictment of another person or could be in addition to the indictments of gates and men avoid it could be on or there could very well be indictments of other persons that have been filed under sail but this sounds like it's an addition to the indictments of gates that matter for there are media reports that men force a gates is negotiating a plea deal with. is that going to be troublesome eventually for the white house. well usually these play dales are troublesome for anyone else who is the subject of

the investigation because the play date. way involves an understanding that the person is pleading guilty will also cooperate with the government fully and completely and if they do not cooperate then the play deal is off and the charges get ramped up so the more play dale's that molar strikes like this where someone plead guilty and then cooperates the more information he's going to get and he's already got a couple in the bag couple of canary birds in the cage i might say andy's going to be adding more as he goes along also and was a trump attacked attorney general jeff sessions tweeting that his people should ask him why the obama administration isn't the focus of the russia probe what do you make of that well if he is suggesting and that he was instructing his attorney general to investigate they obama administration or hillary clinton that

investigate his political enemies and prosecute his political enemies that is abuse of power that is exactly the type of thing that a president should be removed for that was one of the concerns with respect to president nixon one of the reasons he would have been impeached if he had not resign the use of the power of the just as the bob and i guess political enemies that's not something we're going to tolerate in a backcross way and that is not the type of fight we should tolerate from our president richard donald trump jr is on a trip to india this week hoping so and condominiums in the trump organization project which was started before his father was elected president the state department says in a statement the don junior's visiting india as a private citizen and not as in a fish in any official capacity for the government do you have any problem with that richard. i got a lot of problems with that first the president of the united states donald trump continues to own all of or

a vast share of the businesses that are being operated by donald trump showing you're an eric trump his brother so the conflicts of interest grow we're right out of the white house second there may be foreign government money for foreign sovereign wealth fund money foreign government owned bank money coming into these deals and if so that's a violation of the constitution the monuments clause of the gust to shred habits a united states government official from receiving any money profits or benefits from dealings of foreign governments third we have a situation where donald trump jr is apparently talking about united states foreign policy on these trips so he's talking about united states government policy at the same time as he's trying to cut they'll then raise money for the trump organization that suggests a close relationship between the two and somebody somewhere is going to cross a line it is suggesting a quid pro quo and the minute that happens you have a criminal offense of soliciting a bribe offering a bribe or could spare

a say to bribe a public official and you would not need to present a united states or in the white house to go along with a quid pro quo to have criminal conduct taking place in india or anywhere else so he's very very ill advised to be talking about united states government business united states foreign policy at the same time to seize try to solicit money for his kata many names there's you what do you make thank you and on twitter speak out against trent than the n.r.a. a call to the bully. and what do you make of all these kids in the rally in the march coming to washington that they're concerned for their fill schoolmates who shut down. i think the kids are scared that i want a base shot because this could happen to any school any place and we don't have reasonable gun measures we don't require even registration of these assault weapons so you know where they are there are no measures taken to keep dangerous weapons

out of the hands of dangerous by people and we have had more school shootings than a country in the world it's a very dangerous situation we're not protecting our kids and they're upset about it and i'm glad to say the younger generation taking. taking action is breaking out all i've heard from the right way made the white house a number of paper or try to kill some of these kids a boehm play actors or something like that now this is the real they all this is not theater which is always thanks so much for your time today well thank you very much larry i'm not joined by bob livingston former republican member of congress from louisiana and founding partner of the livingston group we're going to talk to him about lots of things including gun legislation the russian investigation and the latest controversy to engulf the white house over security clearances for top aides in the trumpet administration he joins us from washington ok bob we have

another tragedy a terrible shooting in florida kids are taking action i know you support strongly the second amendment what do you think washington jefferson adams hamilton would have thought about these school shootings. well larry this is a phenomenon that's been going on for the last ten or twenty years and it's just tragic marred goes out to all of the families who have lost young ones and also to the people that were wounded there's there's no explaining it it's madness it's evil. we'd like it to stop immediately but the gun didn't walk into that school and do it by itself it a human being crazed walked in and shot and killed seventeen people and a lot of other people. all young wonderful people snubbed out in the prime of life . larry i've lost a son as a parent i know exactly what those people are going through it was an accident it

wasn't anything like this but it was still much to our to bear. but. motional ism doesn't cure this thing. emotionalism and passing laws won't solve the problem if laws would solve the problem in chicago there wouldn't be ten murders a week or whatever they are one hundred hundreds of murders in the last few years because they've got the strongest gun laws around gun laws can't solve it we've got to use common sense and we've got to stop it by putting armed guards in schools of necessary i think that's will stop it we can increase the. regulations on. making sure that mentally ill people don't get guns there already are laws on the books for that but they need to be strengthened i'm

sure we need to probably do is the president said and pass these bum bum stock things that make. guns more automatic than they are and we may entertain trying to cut down. to magic rifles both with stronger laws than are possible but somebody can walk in with a pistol and kill a bunch of people and all of the a r fifteen laws are going to solve that they can take a car and run over people and no gun law will stop that we've got to realize that humanity is has just gone bizarre in the last thirty years. maybe this too many people but i'm going to change that but obama put down strong stetsons against mr. i.

what about the end power of the n.r.a. in this country is immense you got to admit that bob. an ira is not doing anything other than expressing the views. today and as in congress and they're giving him a lot of money well the money's not that's not the issue the issue is abiding by the constitution you know for every person that's killed there are thousands of people who don't want to be killed and want to have a gun to protect themselves of some but man who walks into their house and tries to attack their family so it's we really have to understand passing laws don't work if if passing laws worked there wouldn't be any killings in chicago and many killings in washington d.c. because they have strong gun laws. no it's passage of simple us if a person larry is going to commit murder he doesn't care much whether or not he by

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